Slowmotion Wind-Face Trick & More "Project Power" VFX Breakdown

Project Power is a Netflix Film, which may look like your average superhero film, but in fact is something rather special. The idea is that a new illegal designer drug is being sold and if you take it, it gives you superpowers for 5 minutes. These superpowers, as well as their side effects, are unpredictable and dependant on the latent animal DNA inside each person.
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What makes this film special is, that unlike other superhero films, in this film, the superpowers aren't colorful, artist, and otherworldly. They are raw, crude, violent, and flawed. Framestore was the lead VFX producer on this 2-year project, and with help from Image Engine, Distillery, East Side Effects, and Outpost VFX, they produced over 1000 shots. The general idea being not to make incredible VFX shots but to use VFX to make shots look incredible.

Cuttlefish
A criminal uses the drug to commit a bank robbery, his superpower is based on the cuttlefish's ability to change its color and pattern.
To achieve this they re-built all the background, so the actor could be removed when he was "Camouflaged". All shots were "body tracked" so they could replace the body and have control over the body's moving pattern as it ran around.
Having decided that the criminal wouldn't be able to camouflage instantaneously and that the speed of the change would depend on his stress levels, The team developed a dynamic strobing effect which was created from different skin shader passes, and compositing artists picked out elements from the background to appear on his skin.
Additional texture and reflections were added and then they matched the lighting to the plate.

Headshot
One of the most spectacular moments in the movie is the unveiling of "Frank the policeman's" power, Armadillo-like armor. After chasing the bank robber, Frank finds himself on the wrong end of a gun and gets shot in the head.
To create this shot, a high-pressure airgun was used and the shot was filmed using a Phantom camera at 900 fps. The air blast was also filmed by a witness camera which gave them additional details.
The main work here was adding a bullet impact to where the air had hit, changing the hair movement to look less like it was being blown and more like an impact,
and to make "Frank's" skin resemble the armored, leathery skin of an armadillo.
In order to achieve this, Framestore had to build a Hi-resolution digital double.

On Fire
In this scene "Newt", a dealer who supplies the new drug, takes a pill to escape the protagonist "Art".
Newt's power, The ability to raise his temperature enough to boil at a subatomic level, and through a phenomenon known as "superheated steam", transform the air around him into pure fire. This power does have its consequences though and "Newt's" body is hideously scarred from using his power.
In order to create this "scarring", the actor playing Newt had to wear a full prosthetic bodysuit and was in make-up for 5 hours every day.
Creating the fire was a bit more complicated. Fire, has always been a difficult light source, There are subtle and yet very noticeable differences between, a fire set 'on' something, a fire 'consuming' something, and a fire being 'produced' by something.
A fire doesn't just illuminate things around it, it illuminates things underneath it too. Putting fire on someone by using VFX lacks this illumination 'on' the character and therefore looks fake and "stuck-on".

Biggie
Biggie's superpower makes him double in size. rather than just grow bigger, he mutates. The plates were shot on a miniature set, this helped them understand how big the actor should be, and how he would interact with his environment.
Framestore's Creature FX and tracking teams then did some plate augmentations and matched their CG body parts with his on-set prosthetics, adding grotesque tumors, intricate veins, and muscle jiggles.

Pistol Shrimp
Art's power is based on a Pistol Shrimp, This crustacean can open and close its claw so fast, it vaporizes the water around it. The shot was filmed with high-speed cameras at night, so lighting was extremely challenging.
Framestore used two teams, one working on the macro-level shot which showed rain droplets transition from liquid to plasma to gas. The other worked on the wider shots.
Most of the puddle and droplet work was done using Flip Fluids in Houdini whilst the transitions from liquid to steam were done with Pryo solver.

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